Monday, September 02, 2013

Food for thought: If Chad Billingsley and Jerome Bettis ever had a love child, the kid would have the biggest thighs of all time.

This game time snuck up on us here at SoSG World Headquarters. Sax and I saw each other at Dodger Stadium like ten minutes ago or so, right? Weird.

Today the Dodgers take on the Rockies for a three-game set, fresh off their sweep of the Pod Rays yesterday. The elimination number for the Dbags is now 16, and the Dodgers have a healthy 11.5 game lead on them. I'm guessing that with that lead and with the expanded roster, we'll start to see some crazy lineups made to get the regulars some rest. Which also may lead to bad baseball. And likely to some poorly-constructed Game Threads here. In fact, we're resting Stubbs for the stretch run, too; we need him for the playoffs.

Well, I am surly, first because I'm on a plane flying to Detroit...second, because MLB TV can't tell where I am, it won't let me watch, and right now I'm somewhere over the Rockies stadium. I can listen however. And make lots of comments until my computer battery dies!

Puig may not be the best base runner yet, but it's somewhat of a stretch to say he didn't do enough not to interfere with the defender trying to make a play. Rocky threw himself into Puig, the replay seemed to show.

I see her, it's possible that's her and my eyes are still drunk from last night. But I think there was somebody around towards the first base side. If they put the camera to show a Dodger who is on deck, the puppet would be in the front row

"Don Mattingly said Edinson Volquez soon will be inserted into the Dodgers' rotation as a sixth starter, and although the manager wouldn't announce when until he informs the other five starters, it could be as soon as Wednesday."

I haven't really tracked BW's individual pitches, but have been watching him overall. While I don't think he still has any of that old holy shit virtually unhittable stuff, I've been impressed by his outings. He definitely knows how he wants to approach each batter, has been keeping a lot low and away, has growing confidence, seems cool in pressure situations (has gotten out of a few jams), etc. He's been a great bullpen extender thus far.

thanks, Dusty - that works for me. In this outing, it looked like he was hitting the low 90s when he needed to come in with a fastball and was high 80s with those slidery things that were tailing off the plate